Natasha Maguder is Director of News, Video for CNN International, based at the network’s London bureau. In this role, Maguder is responsible for managing newsgathering teams in the field and on the newsdesk to deliver award-winning cross-platform journalism from Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Maguder led CNN’s coverage of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, working closely with teams on the ground as well as sister network Eurosport to deliver compelling and distinctive news and sport coverage of the Games to the network’s audiences.

She started at CNN in 2010 in the Features unit, producing a range of series and documentaries from different parts of the world. Maguder developed a specialism in urbanisation and climate, eventually supervising all environmental content coming out of the CNN Features unit.

Prior to this, she worked as a producer for Channel 4 News, where she was instrumental in the launch of the network’s first podcast, titled ‘The Morning Report’. She also served as a fixer for the BBC while living in Paraguay, and started her career at IRN Westminster, as an assistant broadcast journalist.

Maguder’s work has earned her numerous prestigious awards over the years, including an Emmy Award in 2024 for outstanding breaking news coverage of the Israel-Hamas War, and an Edward R. Murrow Award and Peabody for her 2012 feature Inside Aleppo with CNN’s Chief International Security correspondent Nick Paton Walsh.

Maguder is from a Turkish Cypriot family, and was born and raised in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom. She has a Bachelors degree in English and Spanish from the University of Leeds, and a Masters in Radio from Goldsmiths, University of London. She is fluent in Spanish and proficient in French and Turkish.